Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760737AbYAKKLT (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:11:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757560AbYAKKLM (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:11:12 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:4527 "EHLO ns.firmix.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755157AbYAKKLL (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:11:11 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: allow piping From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Daniel Walker Cc: Jiri Slaby , apw@shadowen.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net, jschopp@austin.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <1200044878.29897.78.camel@imap.mvista.com> References: <20080111041120.085610726@mvista.com> <47872E35.3070705@gmail.com> <1200043035.29897.62.camel@imap.mvista.com> <47873505.7040008@gmail.com> <1200043399.3905.9.camel@gimli.at.home> <1200043827.29897.70.camel@imap.mvista.com> <47873833.30001@gmail.com> <1200044206.29897.73.camel@imap.mvista.com> <478739AD.3000005@gmail.com> <1200044878.29897.78.camel@imap.mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:11:03 +0100 Message-Id: <1200046263.10166.9.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Firmix-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on ns.firmix.at X-Firmix-Spam-Score: -2.334 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.334 required=5 X-Spam-Score: -2.334 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Envelope-From: X-Firmix-Envelope-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1371 Lines: 33 On Fre, 2008-01-11 at 01:47 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:41 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > On 01/11/2008 10:36 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:34 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > >> If somebody is hacking kernel, I think he should know the - trick used in many > > >> programs, but do not consider this as a nack. > > > > > > I'm hacking the kernel, and I didn't know the - trick .. So you have > > > your testing case all in one with the patch submitter .. > > > > OK, maybe we should base it in doc for patch submitting then? > > It's in the bash docs I'm sure, it's just a matter of who ends up Yes, too. And "awk" also supports that. But "/dev/stdin" is also since ages a symlink to "/proc/self/fd/0" (which is another equivalent "file"). > reading that part of the docs.. I still think my patch is a good one , > we could change the name to "Allow piping with out tricks" I suppose .. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/